Ware transferring device



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HENRY W. INGLE, OF WEST M13031), CONNECTICUT, ABSIGNOE T0 HARTFORD- EMPIEE GQMPANY, OI HARTFORD, ODNNECTIGUT, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE WARE TSFEBBING DEVICE Original application fled August 80, 19, serial Io; 738,079. Divided and this application filed November 22, 1e. serial No. 405,990.

This invention relates to devices for transferrmg articles from a receiving point to a deliver point and, more particularly, to a device or transferring blown lassware from 5 a ick-up station, which may a point in or a jacent to a ware forming machine at which oint the glassware may receive its final shapmg operation, and transferring such were to any suitable receiving station, which may be (1 the conveyor of an annealing lehr.

Th present application is a division of my prior application, Ser. No. August 30, 1924.

'An object of the present invention is to m rovide an apparatus of the character set orth embodying a simple and eflicient ware transfer device or takeout, which may be used for removing were from finishing molds of a forming machine and delivering it at a desired location, such as upon a conveyor mechanism or to a lehr, and which may preferably be easily adjusted to operate between different levels.

A further object of'the invention is to provide a -itransfer device of the character described, in which' various adjustable meansareprovided to enable the device'to be used in a large variety of difierent positions, and in which the are of travel of the transierring means may be varied as desired.

Further objects of the invention include such novel features of construction and orrangement as are disclosed in the accompany ing specification and drawings, invvhich:

Figure l is a side elevational view off a glass working apparatus showing a trensieide vice embodying the present invention asso ciated therewith, certain parts being omitted and certain other parts being shown in section;

Fig. 2 is aside elevationol view ed a ware transferring mechani embodying my invention as applied to an operationinclnding a transfer of blown articles fro a blow mold and bottom plate of a were forming ac to a lehr conveyor, certam portions thereof being illustrated in section; I Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the 59 structure shown in Fig. 2;

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' prior to'the fin al blowing Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation taken on line 44 of ig. 2;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged elevational view of the'tongs mechanism, certain parts being shown in section;

Fig. 6 is a sectional elevational view taken on line 66 of 5;

Fig. 7 is an e arged eleyational view illustratin arms of e ware transferring mechanism;

Fig. 8 is a sectional plan view taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 7;

Fig. 9 is a sectional plan view taken on line 9-9 of Fig. 7; and,

Fig. 10 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the movement of one of the were transferring arms between the shaping machine and the leer conveyor, and i ustrilting the manner in which the same ma be adjusted to operate between different levels.

My invention is shown in connection with a single unit A. of a glass shaping machine, which may be constructed in several similar units, but in which event each unit is provided with a transfer device identical with that hereinafter shown and described and in detail the construction of the I embodying the present invention. Each unit or section comprises a single permanently inverted stationary blank mold l and a single movable blow mold 2, and is capable oil device F; an initial or put blow device C for imparting a prelarv conretion to the blank in the blow mold subsequent to its transfer thereto from the bl mold and o eration; a. talisont device D for each unit tor removing the were from each oi the shaping machines and placing it in a desired location on a conve or; and a pressure controlling mechanism for adjnstably-refiulat the application of the operating fiui pressures to each of the ehi machine units or sections and to the i livery and take-out instrumentahties, and also the application of dill'ercnt blowing pressures and the settling auction, in proper se= til quence and in timed relation with respect to each of the several units and to the operation of the feeding device.

Inasmuch as the present application is limited to the transfer device or take-out, as it is called in my original ap lication above referred to, the operation 0 the shapin machine and the charge deliver devices Wlll not be further described in detail herein, but reference may be had to my original application for a disclosure of'the various operations and constructions of the shaping machine, charge guiding and feeding devices, and the timer.

A machine built in a substantially similar manner to that of my parent application above referred to is shown in the published British patent to Hartford-Empire (30mpany, No. 257,637, Sept. 7, 1926.

In the following specification, identical reference characters are used to denote the several parts as in my original up lication above referred to, of which this app ication is a division.

lhe take-out mechanism D, which removes the warefrom the blow mold 2 at the completion of the finish blowing operation and conveys it to another apparatus for further treatment, herein shown as comprising a leer 267 and a cooperating conveyor 27 0 is illustrated in Figs. 1 to 10. It embodies in its construction a cylinder 271 which constitutes the base of the mechanism, and which is supplied with fluid under pressure through pi es 272 and 273. Suitable valves are provi ed in these pipes for controlling the operating speed of the mechanism. A. piston 276 operates within the cylinder 271 and is provided with a piston rod 277 which is slidably mounted in bearings 280 provided on a column 281. This column is mounted on the cylinder 271 and sup orts a housing 282 within which upper an lower spur gears 283 and 284 are rotatably mounted.

The gears 283 and 28% are recessed on one side to receive hearing disks 285 and 286 {Fig 4) upon which they are mounted by means of interposed ball bearings 287 and 290. The disks 283 and 286 are secured to the housing 282 in any preferred manner and are properly centered thereon by means of pins 231 and 222. .Tlie gears 283 and 284 may be removed their mountings by detaching rings 223 and 294 which are carried thereby and which constitute portions of the ball bearing race-ways. By means of this construction, the 283 and 28 lare pro: vided with bearings having relatively small axial dimensions relatively large radial dimensions which will etectively resist lateral strains. 7 U

The ripper gear isfioiuned with a relatively stlcrt hub portion 2% upon which a 'iold'sr 233, having an 237 lined therein, is slidably. mounted for radial adjustment by means of bolts 300, which engage slots vided in the holder 305 and in an intermediate plate 312. The holder 305 is also provided with a tongue or key 313 which slidably engages a groove 314 in the plate 312, and the latter is provided with a stud portion 315 which rotatably engages an axial opening 313 in the hub 3041. By loosening the bolts 307, the holder 305 may not only be moved radially on the plate 312, in order to adjust the radius of swing of the arm 306 equal to that of the arm 297, but the holder may be turned together with the plate 312 relative to the gear 284 in order to adjust the arm 303 parallel to the arm 297. This latter adjustment is generally made when the machine is originally assembled, and the respective parts are tired in. their adjusted position by means of a pin 317, which permanently secures the plate 312 to the hub 304 It will be observed, frorn an inspection of Fig. 4, that by means of the difierence in the lengths of the hub portions 295 and 304 of the gears 283 and 284, the arms 297 and 306 swing in ditlerent vertical planes, in on der to permit their passage by each other during their-travel between the blow mold and the conveyor. On account of the large radial dimensions of the bearings for the gears 283 and 284 mentioned above, any lateral strains encountered by the arms 297 and 306 are edeetively resisted.

The gears 283 and 28 3; are rotated in the same direction by means of a rack bar 320 which is slidably mounted for vertical movement in a guideway 321, which is formed integrally with the housing 282. The lower end of the rackbar 320 is adjustably secured to the upper end of a rod by means of a clamp 323. The lower end of the rod 322 is slidably mounted in a guideway 324: ad-

jacent to the cylinder 271. The rack bar 320 is raised and lowered in order to rotate the gears 283 and 284; and to swing the arms 297 and 306 carried thereby, by means. of an arm 325, which is secured to the piston rod 27 7 and which projects outwardly through a slot 323 in the column 281, The upward and downward movement of the several parts is cushioned by means of a spring 327 which surrounds the lower end oi the rack bar 320 between the lower end of the guideway 321 and the clampf323 and a spring 330 which surrounds the rod 322 between the arm 325 and the guideway324.

A rod 331 is'mounted for vertical adjustment in a sleeve 332 and in a clamp 333 which are pivotally mounted upon the arms 2,97 and 306 respectively, and is provided at its lower end with an extension 334 (F1 s.

5 and 3) upon which is slidahly mounts a tongs actuatin member, herein shown as a sleeve 335. he sliding movement of the sleeve 335 is limited by means of a pin 336 which isfixed in the extension 334 and extends through slots 337 in the sleeve. A pair @pposed fin ers or tongs 341 are removably secured to t e lower ends of the levers 340 and cooperate with a steadying pin 342, which is detachably secured to the extension 334, in gripping the neck of a bottle. "The upper extremities of the levers340 are provided with slots 343 for engaging pins 344 which are carried by cars 345 formed on the sleeve 335. When the sleeve 335 is slid upwardly on the extension 334, the arms 340 will be actuated to close the tongs 341, and when the sleeve is slid downwardly, the ton s will heopened. The tongs 341 are yieldab y maintained in either of these positions by means of a suitable spring detent 333 that is carried by the sleeve 335 for engagement with upper and lower grooves 34'? and 3519 re spectively, which are formed in the extension 334.,

The sleeve 335 is moved relatively to the extension 334 in order to respectively open and close the fingers 341, by means of a rod 351, which is connected at its lower end to one of the pins 344, This rod extends parallel to the rod 331 and is slidaloly mounted adjacent to its upper end in a guideway 352 which is carried by the sleeve 332 (Fig. 2). An arm 353 is adjustably secured to the rod r 351 for engagement with a stop pin 354 which veni'ent manner, not shown.

When the take-out device is actuated to remove a bottle from the blow mold 2, fluid pressure is admitted into the lower portion of the cylinder 271, which raises the rack bar is fixed in the path of the arm 353 in any con- 323 and rotates the gears233 and 284, thereby swinging the tong mechanism in a clockwise direction, Fig. 2, until the arm 353 engages the pin 354 and arrests the downward movement of the rod 351 and the sleeve 335.

ll he rod 331 and the extension334, however,

the upper groove 347 into engagement therewith. As soon as the were is thus engaged by the fingers 341, the movement of the transferring mechanism is reversed by admitting 1 the conveyor 270 by means of a sprin latch I 355*which is suitably mounted upon t e leer 267. This latch engages above an arm 356 which is formed on the sleeve 335 and prevents the same from rising upon the u ward movement o'f'the rod 331 until the ngers 341 have been opened to release the ware. At this time, an arm 357 which is carried by the rod 331, engages the latch 355 and forces it out of the path oi movement of the arm 356. As soon as the latch 355 has thus released the arm 356, the sleeve 335 rises with the rod 331 in its return movement to the blow mold 2. As the rod 331 rises, during the period of timethat the sleeve 335 is maintained stationary by the engagement of the latch 355 with the arm 353, the groove 347 is forced out of engagement with the detent 346 and the groove 350 moved into engagement therewith. The fingers 341 are,theretore, maintained in an open position during their travel back to the blowing station and in position to again close about the neck of a succeeding bottle. 7

The talze-out device may "be adjusted to transfer were between points at the same or dill erent levels. For example, the leer conveyor 270 may be located at the same level as the bottom plate 14? of the blow mold, as is diagrammatically illustrated in full lines in Fig. 10. in such instance, the lower arm 303 of the transfer device travels through the are a b in transferring ware from the blow mold to the leer. At each extreme limit of travel of the arm 306 through this are, the arm occupies a'horizontalposition with its extremity'located at a distance above the top of the were, and with the rod 331 adjusted to enable the fingers 341 travel a h of the arm is shifted in a counterclockwise direction to the position 0 0?. This adjhstment is edected by looseningtbe clamp 323 and lowering the rack 'bar' 320 with respect to the piston" 276 and its directly associated parts." When the arc of travel of the arm 306 has been thus shifted, the extremity of the arm at each extreme limit of travel thereof occupies a positionabove the top of the were, and at a distance therefrom at the right as seen in Fig. which is greater than such distance before adustrnent. The rod 331 is, therefore, lowere when the arc of travel of the arm is thus shifted, in order to operatively position the fingers 341 relative to the neck of the ware. This adjustment is eiiected by ioosening the clnmp 333 and sliding the rod 331 downwardly through the cisnip and the sieeve 332. Con verseiy, the transfer mechanism 1 av be tidjusted to convey were to e deiivery point which is iocated at at level ebove that of the bottom piste M7 by reversing the edjustmerits above described. When the ere of travel of e 396 of the transfer meshenism is shined, in order to deiivcr were between points at difierent levels, the radius of swinging movement of the srrns is corr spondingly increased or decreased by iooscn ing the bolts 300 and and adjusting the arms 297 end 306 in e rediei direction.

While 1 have shown and described 51. transfer a pnretns perticnieriy with respect to e speci c forming; machine end used in that combination. es s. take-out to remove finished articles from the finsi. biovv moid of such inechine and place them. on e icer conveyor, it is to be understood that the invention is not iimited to this use and that the device-could be and is contempic-ted for use as e transfer for any and oil purposes for which it may be suitable either with glass in transferring blown or otherwise formed articies from one point to another point or for any were with which it msv be edeptebic for use. 'i do not wish to be limited therefore except by the scope of the appended claims, which are be construed es broadly as the state 0 2 the prior art permits.

E claim:

1. Glassware comprising 9. pair oi arms mounted for oscillatory movement in pereiiei reietion with respect-to each other between s were-receiving station end at were-delivery station, tongs carried by said arms, means connecting said arms to ceuse them to move in unison, means for actuating seid connecting means, means for adjusting; the position oi said tcngsreietively to said arms, and :idditionni means for adjusting seid actuating means relative to said connecting; means to cause said tongs to operate between difierent levels.

2. Glassware transferring; mechanism. comprising s. support, a disk cerried by said support, it gear journeiled on seid disk, an arm carried by said gear, e. tongs mechanism carried by said arm, and means for actuating said gear to oscillate seid sun.

3. Glassware transferring; rncchenisrn, comprising e. trzin'siier srni, mennsfor moving said arm between at were-receiving ste tion and s were-delivery station, n support carried by seid arm, tongs mechzniisrni eertransferring; mechanism,

'riedby said support, a member mounted for movement relative to said support and operatively connected to said tongs, means for effecting relative movement between said support and said member at said ware-receiving station to close said tongs to engage the were, and means independent of the last named means for reflecting relative movement between said support and said member at said delivering station to open the. said tongs to release the were.

i. Glassware trensferring mechanism, comprising at transfer own, means for mov ing said nrin between a. were receiving stotion and a were delivering station, a rod cerried bv seid erm, tongs mechenisin cerried by said rod, o sleeve siidebiv mounted on said rod end operetiveiy connected to seid tongs, end meens for arresting; the movement of said sleeve et said receiving; end deiivering stations during movement of seid rod to sense said tongs to respectively move into end out of operative engegernent with the were at seid stations.

5. Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising s trsnsier arm, nieens for mom sing said arm between a. were receiving stetion and s were delivering station, rod carried by said arm, tongs mechanism cerricd by said rod, e sieeve siidobiy mounted on said rod end operetiveiy connected to said tongs, means for arresting the movement of said sleeve at said receiving station during the continued movement of said rod to cause said tongs to move into operetive engegement with the were, end rnesns for deieving the return movement of said sieeve seid delivering station reietive to shot of said rod to cause said tongs to move out of operative engagement with seid were. 6. Giessvvere transferring rnecbenisrn, comprising e trensiier ervn, moons for moving seid s-rin between e were receiving station and at were deiivering; station, at rod carried by seid sir-in, tongs mechanism carried by seid rod, 22. sleeve siidebiv mounted on seid rod and op stively connected to said. tongs, e. stop for erresting the movement of said sleeve seid receiving station during the continued movement of said rod to couse said tongs to move into engagement with the were, and e ietch for delaying the return movement of said sleeve et send deiivering station with-respect to than, or said LOG, to

cause said tongs to move one of engagement tongs, it stop ifor the movement-oi said sleeve at said receiving station in ad- Vance of the discontinuance of the movement of said rod to cause said tongs to move into operative engagement with the ware, a latch or delaying the movement of said sleeve away from said delivering station relative to such movement of said ro to move out of engagement with the ware, and means carried by said rod for disengaging said latch from said sleeve subsequent to the opening of said tongs.

8. Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising a transfer arm, means for mpving said arm between a ware receiving statlon and a ware delivering station,a support carried by said arm, a ware steadyin pin and coacting tongs mechanism carrie y said support, a member mounted for movement relative to said support and operatively connected to said tongs, means for arresting the movement of said member toward said receiving station prior to that of said support to cause said tongs to engage the ware simultaneously with the positioning of said steadying'pin therein, and means tor delaying the movement of said member away from the delivering station during such movement of saidsupport to cause said tongs to open simultaneously with the withdrawal of said steadying pin from the were 9. Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising a transfer arm, means for moving said arm between a were receiving station and a ware delivering station, a rod carried by said arm, a ware steadying pin and coacting tongs mechanism carried by said rod, a sleeve slidably mounted on said rod and operatively connected tosaid tongs, a stop for arresting the movement of said sleeve toward said receiving station prior to that of said rod to cause said tongs to engage the ware simultaneously with the positioning of said steadying pin therein, and a stop for delaying the movement of said sleeve away from the delivering station during such movement of said rod to cause said tongs to open simultaneously with the withdrawal of said steadying pin from the ware.

l0. Glassware transferring mechanism,

comprising a transfer arm, means for mov-.

ing said arm between a ware receiving station and a ware delivering station, a rod carried by said arm,-a ware steadying pin and coacting tongs mechanism carried by 7 said rod, a sleeve slidably mounted on said rod and operatively connected to said tongs, a stop for arresting the movement of said sleeve toward said' receiving station prior to that of said rod'to cause said tongs to engage the ware simultaneously with the posi-' tioning of said steadying pin therein, a latch for delaying the movement of said sleeve away from the delivering station during such movement of said rod to cause said tongs to open s1multaneously with the withdrawal of ing of said tongs.

to cause said tongs said steadying pin from the Wars, and means carried by said rod for disengaging said latch from said sleeve subsequent to the open- 11. Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising a transfer arm, means for moving sa1d arm between a were recelvmg station and a ware delivering station, a rod carried by said arm, a ware studying pin and coacting tongs mechanism carried by said rod, a sleeve slidablymounted on said rod and operatively connected to said tongs, a stop for arresting the movement of said sleeve toward said receiving station in advance of the discontinuance of the movement of saidrod to cause said tongs to engage the I laying the movement of said sleeve away from the delivering station during such movement of said rod to cause said tongs to open simultaneously with the Withdrawal of said steadying pin from the ware, means carried by said rod for disengaging said latch from said sleeve subsequent to the opening of said tongs, and a latch for yieldably maintaining said tongs in a closed position during their travel from said receiving station to said delivering station, and in an open position during their travel back to said receiving station.

12. Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising an arm, tongs mechanism carried by said arm, means for imparting rotative oscillatory movements tosaid arm about a 13. Glassware transferring mechanism,

comprising a pair of arms mounted for oscillatory movement in parallel relation with respect to each other between a ware-receiving station and a ware-delivery station and about odset axes, tongs carried and guided by said arms respectively, means connecting said arms to cause them to move in unison, means for actuating said connecting means, means for shifting the-arcs of travel of said arms angularly about said axes, and means for adjusting the position of said tongs relatwo to said arms, whereby said tongs are operable between stations at diii'erent levels.

14a Glassware transferring mechanism, comprising a support, an arm pivoted to said support on a horizontal axis, tongs mechanism carried by said arm, means for oscillating said, arm about said axis including a reciprocating said member, a mechanical linkage iortransmitting motion from said Elli? reciprocating member and power means for member to said arm, and means for shifting the arc of travel of said arm angulerly about said axis including means for varying the relatiw e positions of two elements of said. mechanical linkage, whereby to cause said ton to operate between different levels.

lgned at Hartford, (301111., this 20th day of November 1929.

mNRY W. INGLEu 

